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Rotorua student on mission to beat cyberbullying

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15 Jun, 2016 09:00 PM3 mins to read

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One local student is on a mission to combat cyberbullying by not only helping the victims but by helping the bullies help themselves.

The 17-year-old Rotorua Girls' High School student, who chose not to be named, was one of three winners of a nationwide competition run by NetSafe and Google where participants created campaigns last year to promote positive online behaviour.

She presented her anti-bullying web campaign to Google's headquarters in Sydney, a valuable experience she said helped guide her.

"It was a challenge to come up with your own anti-cyberbullying campaign, it interested me so I just got into it and made my campaign called Noble.

"The inspiration for Noble itself came when I was trying to think about what would be the best way to tackle cyberbullying and I thought about how I think teenagers and adults - anyone really - never really responds well to being told 'you're doing this wrong' or 'don't do this' and being kind of told off. So I thought the best way to combat it was to demonstrate positive behaviour online as an alternative way of behaving online.

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"So basically I developed a campaign where I role-model positive behaviour and encourage others to do the same. As part of that I have a Facebook page and along with that I have two websites, one is a place for the bullies to go if they need advice on how to stop what they're doing.

"And then my latest one, Noble Plus, is one I just set up about a month ago where I'm doing articles on people who are doing good things to demonstrate to others positive ways to behave as well.

I got really into the Facebook page and I thought I really want to do something else and when you realise you have three parties, the victim, the bystander and the bully you want to help all three.

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"The victims are being targeted for health and support, then the bystanders are being told what you can do if you're witnessing it, then I realised for someone who is a bully they need somewhere to go to find a way out of the situation, because I feel like there's just nothing for them.

"I'd love to take it further, that's why I set up the Noble Plus, but it's a little bit one way.

I'd like people to be able to get involved and be able to participate and I'm finding that's not really happening yet. I understand that, because it's quite new.

Anyone who wants to help can just get on board and keep pushing it further so that positive behaviour becomes more the norm."

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Explore Noble:

* www.facebook.com/noblenewzealand

* www.nobleplus.wix.com/nobleplus

* www.adviceforcyberbullies.weebly.com/

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